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MailSteward Current Version: 10.0.2
Current MailSteward Pro Version: 10.0.2
requires OS X 10.6 or greater (Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion).
MailSteward version 10.x is a paid upgrade from versions 8.x & 9.x. There is a $20 upgrade fee for users of earlier versions 8.0 and above, prior to 10.0. For those who purchased MailSteward on or after August 1, 2012, the upgrade is free. If you have a license for any of the MailSteward versions, purchased on or after August 1, 2012, you can upgrade in the usual way by clicking on Check for Updates in the MailSteward menu. You will then be provided with a new license key which will be entered into the registered users database.
The $20 upgrade only applies to versions 8.0 and greater of MailSteward. Versions prior to 8.0 will need to purchase a new license.
If you are a registered user of a previous version of MailSteward greater than version 8.0, purchased prior to August 1, 2012, you can upgrade to version 10.x by downloading the latest version and taking the following steps.
1. Purchase the $20 MailSteward upgrade license at the pubblog store.
2. Launch MailSteward and click on the Enter License button. Enter your new upgrade license key, and click on the License Now button.
3. Your new license key will be entered into the registered users' database, and MailSteward will be fully activated.
Version History
Version 10.0.2, build 1237 of MailSteward has the following changes:- Fix bug that caused some Japanese emails to be incorrectly displayed.
- Hide MailSteward when doing a scheduled archive.
- Fixed bug causing minimized window to not be easily restored.
- Fixed bug causing setting the font for the email list to not work.
- Make main window not resizable while archiving.
- Make button icons display correctly on Snow Leopard.
- Fix bug in check for duplicates.
- Add more years to stats report dropdowns.
- Fixes bug - During archive process, if MailSteward became inactive and then was made active again, the browse window display was corrupted and buttons quit working.
- Fixed bug causing setting the font for the email list to not work.
- Make main window not resizable while archiving.
- Make button icons display correctly on Snow Leopard.
- Fix bug in check for duplicates.
- Add more years to stats report dropdowns.
- Add field drop-downs to search window, making it possible to search for multiple strings in the same field.
- Fix bug in MS Pro that caused database to always revert to myemaildb at launch if no other database specified.
- Add check boxes to list of email accounts or mailboxes in accounts settings.
- Add ability to specify different fonts for list of emails and body text of an email.
- Fix bug in MailSteward Pro - export sql was hanging on non-utf8 from and to
- Get rid of indexing options. Index everything by default.
- Fix bug - base64 encoded plain text was not being decoded.
- Add deselect all to edit menu.
- Get rid of small panel. Always display list of 500 most recent emails.
- Numerous cosmetic changes.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Add option to not skip duplicates when archiving.
- In MailSteward Pro, add Backup Database to SQL File... to File menu.
- Fix bug in setting the default font via the Edit menu.
- Make MailSteward Pro automatically reconnect to the MySQL server when the connection times out.
- Fix MailSteward Pro bug in the export of tab and comma delimited text files.
- Added 4 more years to archive beginning and ending date drop-downs.
- MailSteward now requires OS X 10.6 or better (Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion).
- Mountain Lion Gatekeeper compatible.
- Fixed bug in export SQL file.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Disabled resize for settings panel and expanded the size of the settings accounts tab.
- Fixed bug that caused dates to be set to Greenwich Mean Time when running in Lion (OS X 10.7).
- Fixed bug - when running under Lion, scheduled times were set to Greenwich Mean Time rather than local time.
- Fixed bug causing hang due to refreshing mailboxes list after archive completion.
- Fixed bug that caused email accounts to sometimes not be recognized in Lion (OS X 10.7).
- Now refreshes mailboxes list after archive completion.
- MailSteward is now compatible with OS X 10.7 (Lion).
- Fix bug that caused selected mailboxes settings to not be retained when MailSteward relaunched.
- Fix bug that caused progress panel to not close when done adding tags.
- Make universal binary instead of Intel only (the Mac App Store version remains Intel Only).
- Upgrade to sqlite 3.7.6.2.
- Make separate check boxes for archiving trash and junk mailboxes in the general settings.
- New feature to log duplicate emails that were skipped during archiving.
- Store entire mailbox path in the database instead of just the last two folders.
- Fix bug that in rare instances caused email body to be tacked on to the CC: addresses.
- Add tagging feature to MailSteward Lite.
- Fixed bug that caused directories to be listed that were not actual mailboxes, when mailboxes were chosen in the Accounts Settings.
- Fixed bug that caused scheduled archives to deselect selected mailboxes, when mailboxes were chosen in the Accounts Settings.
- No more default database file. Now the user chooses where to locate and what to name it.
- Added Open Recent item to the File menu that lists recently opened database files.
- Upgrade to growl version 1.2.1.
- New feature to save all of the attachments of selected emails to separate files.
- Fix bug that caused attachment file names to be concatenated for emails with multiple attachments.
- Update docs to 2011.
- Add four more years to year drop-down menus.
- Fixed bug -- Some non-American English encodings were not being properly parsed.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Fixed bug -- now all settings are saved no matter which settings tab is active.
- Make the tooltip for the path to the MailSteward database file show the whole path.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Fixed bug, introduced with the tag rules feature, that caused MailTags keywords to not be properly imported.
- Fixed rarely occurring bug that caused the body of plain text emails to display only as an attachment.
- Minor bug fixes.
- New feature to define rules to exclude email from being archived into the database in MailSteward and MailSteward Pro.
- Upgrade to sqlite 3.7.2 in MailSteward and MailSteward Lite.
- Fixed bug that caused the link to the html version of an email to not be displayed in MailSteward and MailSteward Lite.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Now displays the size of the currently selected email in a list of emails.
- As email is archived, tags are now updated even if the email is already in the database.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Fixed bug that sometimes caused a crash when saving a list of email addresses.
- Now user enters a database name when exporting an SQL file, rather than just having the name of the exported file itself be the name of the database.
- New feature to automatically tag emails as they are archived, according to user-defined tagging rules.
- Fix problem of the initial search after launching MailSteward being too slow to display results.
- Upgrade MailSteward and MailSteward Lite to SQLite version 3.6.23.
- MailSteward Pro will now automatically reconnect to the MySQL server when the connection times out.
- Update the mailbox field in an email in the database if a duplicate email being archived has a different mailbox.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Fix bug in Date Time column sorting.
- Restore search within a search results list feature, which was inadvertently broken in release 8.2.8, build 1149.
- Fix bug in export mbox file that caused some emails with encoded From fields to not be exported.
- Change scheduling such that the crontab no longer sends emails upon completion.
- New feature to browse database by the size of individual emails.
- Fix bug in MailSteward and MailSteward Lite that sometimes caused duplicates to be archived when two databases are merged together.
- Extend time of connection to the MySQL server in MailSteward Pro, so that connection is maintained much longer.
- Minor bug fixes.
- New option to set an upper limit on the number of emails to list in search or browse results.
- New option to always launch attachment when it is clicked on, instead of asking to launch it or save it as a file.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Fixed bug that caused dashes to not be displayed in two of the nine possible date formats in the Viewing Settings.
- Now MailSteward is compatible with the Growl notification system (http://www.growl.info/).
- Add NOT functionality to search criteria.
- Make saved searches editable.
- Update MailSteward and MailSteward Lite to SQLite version 3.6.17.
- MailSteward Pro now automatically sets the MySQL max_allowed_packet variable, so the user does not have to set it in the my.cnf file.
- Fixed bug in Scheduling that caused individually selected days to be off by one day.
- Minor cosmetic change in button icons.
- Upgrade sqlite to version 3.6.16 in MailSteward and MailSteward Lite.
- Make general settings window resizable.
- Eliminate unnecessary searches for mailboxes when mailboxes are selected in the Accounts Settings.
- Fixed bug that caused some UTF-8 encoded emails to not be displayed properly.
- Fixed a bug, introduced in the 8.2 Leopard version, that caused HTML to not be displayed when multiple searches or browses are done without relaunching MailSteward.
- Fixed a bug in processing digest emails that contain attachments.
- Fixed a bug in rare cases where the body of an email is encoded both as quoted-printable and base64.
- Fixed a bug in resizing of the Accounts view in the Settings.
- Fixed a bug that caused some foreign language mailbox names to be improperly displayed.
- Fixed a bug introduced by adding the optional date formatting feature. When saving or printing emails as text or PDF, every email showed the same date.
Version 8.2.1, Build 1136 of MailSteward has the following change:
- Fixed a memory management problem that was introduced by the change to the new Leopard only version of MailSteward.
Version 8.2.1 of MailSteward has the following changes:
- New option in Settings to choose the default sort order for search and browse results.
- Add buttons to the Search for setting the date range to today, the past week, this month, or this year.
- Add option to delete email files from the specified import folder after they have been imported.
- Minor bug fixes
Version 8.2 of MailSteward has the following changes:
- MailSteward now requires OS X 10.6 or greater (Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion) .
- New Settings window with toolbar and multiple views.
- New feature in Settings to choose the date display format.
- MailSteward and MailSteward Lite have been upgraded to SQLite version 3.6.13.
- Minor bug fixes
Version 8.1.2 of MailSteward has the following changes:
- New feature in File menu to check for duplicate emails in the database.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused an email to not be archived if it is part of an mbox file and follows a digest email, but is not a digest email itself. A digest email is a collection of many emails embedded within a single email.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused attachments to not be displayed when an email has, embedded within it, HTML-only emails containing attachments.
Version 8.1.1 of MailSteward has the following changes:
- Added new feature to search for only email that has tags, or only email that does not have tags.
- Fixed bug that caused email body window to not be updated when email is deleted from the list.
Version 8.1, Build 1127 of MailSteward has the following changes:
- Fixed bug that caused some HTML attachments to not be displayed properly.
- Eliminate .emlx and .eml filenames from mailboxes drop-down in Search.
Version 8.1 of MailSteward has the following changes:
- Add drop-downs in Search for selecting mailboxes and tags keywords.
- New feature to save selected emails as separate PDF files.
- Fixed bug in MailSteward and MailSteward Lite that caused SQL errors when email subjects contained non-ASCII characters.
- Fixed bug that, in rare cases, caused duplicate emails to not be skipped.
Version 8.0.9 of MailSteward has the following changes:
- New feature in MailSteward and MailSteward Pro to export a list of email addresses.
- New feature in MailSteward Lite to enable exporting of mbox format files.
- New option to save or not save log file for scheduled archives.
- Fix bug introduced in version 8.0.1 that caused the text contents of base64 encoded attachments to not be searchable.
- Add two more years to date drop-down menus.
- Minor bug fixes.
Version 8.0.8, build 1123 of MailSteward Pro has the following changes:
- Fix bug that truncated very long lists of email addresses in the TO field. Enlarging the size of the TO field in the database may take a little time the first time this version is launched.
- Fix bug that caused duplicate emails to be archived when the body contained back slash (\) characters.
Version 8.0.8, build 1122 of MailSteward and MailSteward Lite has the following change:
- Revert back to sqlite 3.4.1 because sqlite 3.6.6.2 was not working with Tiger (OS X 10.4.x).
Version 8.0.8 of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro has the following changes:
- Add separate scrolling window pane for displaying the list of links to an email's attachments.
- Upgrade the Intel version of MailSteward and MailSteward Lite to version 3.6.6.2 of the sqlite database engine.
- Fix bug in MailSteward Pro that caused duplicate emails to be archived when the subject contained double quote (") characters.
- Minor bug fixes.
Version 8.0.7, Build 1120 of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro has the following changes:
- Fixed bug in parsing of email when the character set is equal to NULL.
- Fixed rarely occurring bug introduced in version 8.0.7 in the parsing of the TO field.
Version 8.0.7, Build 1119 of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro has the following change:
- List attachments at the bottom of HTML-only email.
Version 8.0.7 of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro has the following changes:
- HTML email is now displayed in the same window as plain text email, rather than a separate HTML window.
- Fixed a bug in the parsing of emails with invalid email addresses in the TO: field.
- Fixed a bug so that accented & other non-ASCII characters are preserved when email is saved to a text file.
Version 8.0.6, build 1117 of MailSteward Pro has the following change:
- Fixed bug that caused "Looking for mailboxes" progress panel to remain on the screen when mailboxes are chosen rather than accounts.
Version 8.0.6 of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro has the following changes:
- Fixed a bug that caused the raw headings field to not be created in some rare circumstances.
- Fixed a bug that caused scheduling to not work in the free version of MailSteward.
- Added a new feature to search for a string anywhere in the email, in any of the fields.
Version 8.0.5, build 1115 of MailSteward Pro has the following changes:
- Fixed a bug caused MailSteward Pro to fail to catch duplicates for email containing double quote characters.
- Fixed a bug that caused the names of saved connections to not appear in the list of saved connections in the connection panel.
Version 8.0.5 of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro has the following changes:
- Fixed a rarely occurring bug that improperly parsed date-times in email that has no time zone information in the headers.
- Use account names in the email account list in Settings, rather than path names, and sort them alphabetically.
Version 8.0.4 of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro has the following change:
- The email date and time is now adjusted to the local system time zone. This may cause some duplicate emails to be archived the first time an archive is done with the new version 8.0.4 because the adjusted datetime will not match some email that has already been archived.
Version 8.0.3, build 1112 of MailSteward has the following change:
- This build fixes a bug introduced in version 8.0.1 that caused exporting a MailSteward database to fail for email for which raw source has not been archived.
Version 8.0.3, Build 1111 of all versions of MailSteward fixes a bug introduced in version 8.0.3, build 1110, that causes archiviing to fail because of a missing Perl module that is required to adjust the datetime to the local time zone. As a result, the feature of adjusting to the time zone has been removed in this build.
Version 8.0.3 of MailSteward & MailSteward lite has the following changes:
- New feature to refine a search by searching within an existing search results list.
- The email date and time is now adjusted to the local system time zone. This may cause some duplicate emails to be archived the first time an archive is done with the new version 8.0.3 because the adjusted datetime will not match some email that has already been archived.
- Fixed a minor bug that allowed the email account/mailbox list in Settings to be editable.
Version 8.0.3 of MailSteward Pro has the following changes in addition to version 8.0.3 of MailSteward:
- The optional database name in the Connection window is now saved along with the rest of the information for a saved connection.
- Fixed a bug that caused an SQL error when the raw email headings contained single quote (') characters.
Version 8.0.2 of MailSteward has the following changes:
- Fixed a bug introduced in version 8.0.1 that caused the Merge Databases... command to fail.
Version 8.0.1 of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro has the following changes:
- The To, From, and Subject fields have been enlarged to accommodate unusually long text.
- A bug has been fixed in base64 decoding that caused some attachments to be unviewable.
- The raw email headings are now searchable for such things as ip addresses and message ids.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 8.0 of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro has the following changes:
- The free version is now activated to the full version by entering a license key.
- You can now check for, install, and relaunch new releases from within MailSteward.
- Added Archive History feature to the File menu to keep and display a log of successful archives.
- The printing of email text and HTML views has been fixed so that lines are not cut off and everything is properly formatted.
- Fixed handling of 3 digit years in email dates.
- Fixed some problems with importing MailTags priorities correctly, and searching for priorities.
Click here to see change log for earlier versions.
